The year is coming! The year is coming!

February 6, 2007

Sorry I haven’t updated in so long. I’ve been having serious trouble with my internet connection and besides that it’s just a busy time of year around here. Truthfully, there hasn’t been a lot to say. I’ve been working. My mom was here last week, but mostly I worked the whole time so we couldn’t do a lot.

Fortunately, I only have to work this week and the next and then I get a week off for Chinese New Year! At the kindergarten I have to perform in a skit about the legend of New Years. It goes something like this:

Long, long ago there was a terrible monster called “Nian”, which means year. Every New Years eve it would rise out of the sea to terrorize the people. Finally one year a wise old beggar told the people how to scare the monster away. They had to put up red decorations because Nian is scared of the color red. They dressed in lion costumes and lit firecrackers and succeeded in sending Nian back to his home in the sea… until next year.

I will be playing the part of a terrorized villiage person. AAAAAH! Help me! Help me!

I’m sure I will update later about what Chinese New Year is really like around here.